They gave this heard of a shot”

She en­joys hang­ing on to a lit­tle anonymity...

Let’s get on a horse. Let’s ride through the desert. Let’s free some slaves. Let’s get it go­ing.’

I like to push my­self though and ex­per­i­ment with new things...

I like to stretch my­self a much as pos­si­ble as an ac­tor, and to try as many dif­fer­ent things as I can, while I’m in the very for­tu­nate po­si­tion to be able to do that, and see what shoe fits best, re­ally.

I feel that in life it’s im­por­tant to muck in and have a sense of hu­mour...

If you’re hav­ing a pic­nic on a sum­mer’s day, and the beach is more dirt than sand, and the dirt is mud be­cause it’s rain­ing, and there’s nowhere to sit apart from an out­flow pipe, and ev­ery­body’s cold, you open a bot­tle of bub­bly and don’t com­plain. And not just don’t com­plain but ac­tu­ally have a good time, be­cause you’ve got a sense of hu­mour. I think that’s very im­por­tant!

5 things you didn’t know about Emilia Clarke...

first ever role was on day­time TV series, Doc­tors, in 2009. was not a real horse’s heart she had to eat on Game of Thrones. She de­scribed it as ‘a con­gealed jam kind of thing’.

can sing, as well as play the flute, pi­ano and the guitar. was bul­lied about her now-fa­mous eye­brows when she was grow­ing up. stud­ied drama at the same school as Colin Firth.